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Texas and region

Three bodies have been found in a West Texas house and police believe the deaths involve a double murder and a suicide.

Abilene police Sgt. Lynn Beard said Friday that a relative, who’d been unable to reach the family for several days, went to the home and discovered the bodies of a woman and her two adult sons.

Beard told The Associated Press that all three people in the home had been shot. He had no immediately details on which person shot the other two.

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● HENDERSON — Authorities say two men have pleaded guilty to a double slaying in which the victims were shot and dumped along a road in East Texas last year. The Rusk County Sheriff’s Office on Friday said that 24-year-old Drake Dario Blanton, of Cushing, was sentenced to life in prison for each victim.

● HOUSTON — Police say a man arrested in Orange County, Calif., is being charged with murder for a fatal shooting in Houston 28 years ago. Police said Friday 53-year-old Ronald Loynes was arrested earlier this week and was awaiting extradition to Texas.

● HOUSTON — A Houston preacher’s mistress has been sentenced to seven years in prison over her role in the slaying of his wife. Jurors on Thursday found Tyonne Palmer guilty of murder. Palmer also was convicted of evidence tampering and must serve 10 years of probation.

● GILMER — A county judge in East Texas will return to his elected duties after being cleared of an official oppression charge over a protester removed from a meeting.

MISSION — Hundreds of protesters wearing white and chanting in English and Spanish marched Saturday in Texas’ first major protest against a border wall, crossing the earthen Rio Grande levee where President Donald Trump’s administration wants to build part of the first phase.